I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a weight problem (=the problem of being too fat)
▪ Patients with weight problems were put on a strict diet.
a weight/height limit
▪ The weight limit per bag is 20 kilos.
add weight to the suggestion/idea etc
▪ Recent research adds weight to the theory that the climate is changing.
be unequal in size/weight etc
▪ The pieces were unequal in length.
beneath the weight of (=unable to support the weight of)
▪ Some roofs collapsed beneath the weight of so much snow.
birth weight (=a baby’s weight when it is born)
▪ Many factors may affect a baby’s birth weight.
body weight
▪ You have exactly the right body weight for your height.
buckle under the pressure/strain/weight
▪ A weaker person would have buckled under the weight of criticism.
lose weight/height/speed etc
▪ You’re looking slim. Have you lost weight?
▪ The plane emptied its fuel tanks as it started losing altitude.
shed weight (=lose weight from your body)
▪ Doing exercise is the best way to shed surplus weight.
support...weight
▪ During sleep, our spine no longer needs to support the weight of our body.
troy weight
under the weight of (=unable to support the weight of)
▪ The bench collapsed under the weight of so many people.
weight gain
▪ Eating too many fatty foods could cause weight gain.
Weight loss
▪ Weight loss should be gradual.
weight training
▪ He does weight training at the gym twice a week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ Alternatively, five inmates of the same average weight could be flown without luggage.
▪ These charts show the average weights for individuals of varying heights, with separate charts available for males and females.
▪ Now, for most foods, legislation allows the average weight to be stated.
▪ The suspect was described as a white male of average height and weight between 25 to 32 years old.
▪ So too, in some cases, is the average weight per age of children under three.
▪ The average tusk weight has dropped from Poachers ambush elephants, machine-gun them and then hack their tusks out.
▪ The average weight gain after lunch was about 2.5 pounds, which is appropriate in normal cases.
dry
▪ Size can be measured as height, leaf area, volume, fresh weight, dry weight, etc.
▪ It absorbs up to a fifth of its dry weight of water without feeling damp, she says.
▪ Measurements of dry weight gain showed a marked decline in relative growth rate below 5°C.
▪ As before, W denotes weight, but this time fresh or dry weight as suitable.
▪ The performance of the transplants was measured by vegetative growth expressed as dry weight at harvest after twelve months.
equal
▪ The new title gave equal weight to both nationalities in the republic.
▪ Whereas in the Catholic Church the word and Churches Doctrine held equal weight.
▪ Will social factors be given equal weight with medical factors when determining such claims?
▪ Everyone's opinion has equal weight.
▪ It would ensure that the vote of every citizen had equal weight.
▪ These two strands have an approximately equal weight in terms of student workload and contribution to the overall assessment.
▪ If, for example, two perceptive functions are of equal weight, they tend to interfere with and jam each other.
▪ If you don't have fresh fruit to hand, just use an equal weight of canned or frozen fruit instead.
extra
▪ But the extra weight of the kiddies holding on to them, they sank as well.
▪ The men who were most prone to carry extra weight on their bellies were also at higher cataract risk.
▪ I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill.
▪ The extra weight acted as levers which made Hsu Fu twist and wrack even more.
▪ Simply calculate the extra weight and add the correct value of stamps for that particular weight and destination.
▪ Presumably, he wished the carboys to float; but he had neglected the extra weight of the stoppers!
▪ They reckoned that my extra weight had protected my heart, and I was also wearing heavy, rubber-soled safety boots.
▪ But when the Padres plummeted to last place last week, the hefty Vaughn contract took on extra weight.
full
▪ She rolled on top of him, letting her full weight rest on his body.
▪ When we pushed against them, they toppled with the full force and weight of a massive trunk.
▪ Sid slowly allowed the scales to take the full weight of the fish.
▪ Relieved, she now felt the full and shocking weight of what she had just witnessed.
▪ Now the full weight of responsibility fell on Doris.
▪ The full weight of community wrath was brought down firmly on a few who tried to speak their own minds.
▪ Accordingly the full weight of the curial machine was now brought into play.
▪ Right then, a crank breaks and the rider lands with full weight on the frame crossbar, then crashes.
great
▪ He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight.
▪ Then slowly, as if struggling against some great weight, they start to move.
▪ I also love spaghetti with a simple sauce - pasta's great for weight watchers.
▪ This is a man of the greatest weight, to whose friendship we can not be indifferent.
▪ There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint; greater symbolic weight was required.
▪ I longed to feel the great buzzard's weight on my fist.
▪ I have no doubt that his opinion will carry great weight.
▪ Although these facts were not matters to which any great weight could be attached, they were relevant.
heavy
▪ Monks tied the locket to a heavy weight and dropped it into the water.
▪ Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
▪ Marlene woke to the sound of a heavy weight being dragged across the floor.
▪ Both heavy weights and light weights have slow and fast oscillations.
▪ If you lift heavy weights and you lift in the wrong way, you can obviously do yourself damage.
▪ I combine cardiovascular and muscular workouts with moderate to heavy weights, a lot of repetitions and no rest in between sets.
▪ Lifting very heavy weights can also raise your blood pressure considerably for a short time.
▪ Steeped again in current events and the heavy weight of the world, I felt my memory grow fuzzy.
ideal
▪ We are generous and define obesity as being more than 120 percent ideal body weight.
▪ The nonsmoking, sedentary men involved in the study were 20 percent to 60 percent over ideal weight, but otherwise healthy.
▪ Charts, then, are only a rough guide to ideal weight.
▪ Finally, you can plan ahead and continue with some sort of contingency contract when you have attained your ideal weight.
▪ Guides to ideal weight often seem arbitrary and inflexible.
▪ This answer falls within the acceptable range and so indicates that this person is at or reasonably close to her ideal weight.
▪ For health - as opposed to fashion - reasons, there is a 2-stone range of ideal weight for your height.
▪ Daily total caloric requirements were calculated from Long's equation modified for ideal body weight.
light
▪ Both heavy weights and light weights have slow and fast oscillations.
▪ It is lighter in weight and does not need the heavy winches and guide frame of the deep diving bells.
▪ Manual is good because it is cheaper than power operation and, we assume, lighter in weight.
▪ Remember to use light weights and be very cautious when first exercising the spinal erectors.
▪ In addition to its very light weight, it was very durable.
▪ Their versatility and light weight makes them attractive for backpacking - albeit at a price.
▪ A honeycomb provides the most rigid structure with lightest weight.
low
▪ Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
▪ Predominantly affecting young women, the central feature of this disorder is an abnormally low weight achieved by extreme caloric restriction.
▪ The seriousness of the low weight is often denied by the patient.
▪ Many people believed that such low molecular weight products were all one could hope for from ethylene.
▪ The key is its low weight.
▪ The low weight comes from the chassis design.
▪ You can try to rationalize your low weight loss.
▪ Reduced glutathione is known as a major low molecular weight scavenger of free radicals in cytoplasm.
molecular
▪ Amino-acid sequencing is limited to smaller molecules, for example the endogenous opioid met-enkephalin with a molecular weight of 573.
▪ The remainder stays in the donor stream with the large molecular weight substances and is subsequently discarded.
▪ The position and sizes of molecular weight standards are indicated.
▪ Reduced glutathione is known as a major low molecular weight scavenger of free radicals in cytoplasm.
▪ The main chemical constituent of mucus is a waterproof high molecular weight glycoprotein.
▪ These polymers, based on methacrylate chemistry, have high molecular weights and therefore form very stable coatings owing to their multipoint attachment.
▪ This shows that for mixing to take place between high molecular weight components the solubility parameters would have to be virtually identical.
sheer
▪ Due to its sheer weight it can only be used at the Centre by special permission of the Department of Transport.
▪ The intensity of the introductions made me tremble, overtaken by the sheer weight of their status.
▪ Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city.
▪ He forced though - even if going back: the sheer weight of his blows - Anton down on his hands and knees.
▪ In terms of money, grass-roots organization, blocking power and sheer weight, the Democrats and Republicans rule supreme.
▪ In the case of a particularly large breed this is perhaps understandable, because of the sheer weight.
▪ The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact.
▪ The sheer weight of dicta amassed was intimidating, but Mr. Ashworth conceded he could find no authority actually binding on me.
■ NOUN
birth
▪ Barker etal reported that low birth weight was associated with lower adult lung function but not with symptoms of wheeze.
▪ Low birth weight is another measure of the well-being of infants and children.
▪ As the example of Table 7 shows, both late fetal and early neonatal mortality rise steadily with decreasing birth weight.
▪ Our results pertain to a sample of 101 subjects, in many of whom the birth weight was obtained by maternal recall.
▪ The inclusion of birth weight as one of the enrolment characteristics is probably inappropriate.
▪ Several studies revealed conditions that affect prematurity and birth weight.
▪ This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight, gestational age, and respiratory symptoms.
▪ Plasma fibrinogen concentrations, for example, are related to weight at 1 year but not independently to birth weight.
body
▪ Forces that can be up to five times your body weight on each stride.
▪ Loss of only 10 percent of body weight, regular aerobic exercise and quitting smoking lead the list.
▪ These results did not differ when acid output was expressed as mmol/h/kg lean body mass or mmol/h/kg fat free body weight.
▪ He then measured their body weight.
▪ Ideally, if you are overweight you will eat slightly less than is necessary to maintain a constant body weight.
▪ We are generous and define obesity as being more than 120 percent ideal body weight.
▪ The stability of a stance depends upon the distribution of the body weight.
control
▪ Once you start eating in a healthier way, good weight control should become much easier.
▪ In celebration of a new weight control year, the Quaker Oats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.
▪ It may be tempting to talk a great deal about what you have learned about diet, nutrition, exercise, and weight control.
▪ PreSnackwellian researchers proposed high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets for weight control.
▪ Keep the business of weight control in perspective.
▪ But all those favorites can fit, even on weight control diets or eating plans designed to manage heart disease or diabetes.
▪ The actual weight at the end of each month can then be filled in as the weight control regime progresses.
▪ Your own, personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time.
gain
▪ Parents may also need some advice and discussion about the types of high-calorie food that are important for weight gain and growth.
▪ But we wanted a program that used weight gain per month instead.
▪ Varicose veins Hormone changes and weight gain give rise to varicose veins.
▪ In a vicious cycle, weight gain increases insulin resistance increases weight gain.
▪ Body weight gain was satisfactory in all rats included in this study.
▪ This contradiction is what leads to much of this country's weight gain, particularly in young people.
▪ Her diarrhoea decreased with improved appetite and weight gain, a rising serum albumin, and resolution of her peripheral oedema.
▪ Neither prevention of weight gain nor maintenance of weight loss was included in this research project.
loss
▪ Look out for smell of solvent on breath, nose-bleeds, sores around nose and mouth, weight loss.
▪ What kind of diet promotes weight loss?
▪ Just aim to stay where you are until the tough period is over and you can recommence your weight loss regime.
▪ Suppose, for example, that only seven children showed weight loss.
▪ Will you get a big weight loss this week, or will it come next week, or not at all?
▪ Or better yet, see a doctor who specializes in weight loss.
▪ First, consider the situation where weight loss is not as good as expected.
▪ But for others, it may be too dramatic or raise too many expectations about weight loss.
problem
▪ Animal fats and refined sugar contribute to a weight problem and can be a factor in heart and arterial disease.
▪ She is an expert on how a low-calorie diet and exercise can beat cellulite and other weight problems.
▪ People who don't have a weight problem may simply not be as sensitive to these shifts.
▪ You want a relatively slow but controlled and permanent solution to your weight problem.
▪ For the first time in my life I had a weight problem.
▪ Conquering your weight problem is probably the most important thing in your life right now.
▪ The mirror test Many people with weight problems avoid full-length mirrors as much as possible.
▪ But if this is your only way of relaxing then you may acquire a weight problem.
■ VERB
add
▪ The fixing process is simple and clean, and only minimally increases wall thickness and adds little dead weight to the structure.
▪ It added to the weight we would carry, which was a lot if you were a gunner or a Duper man.
▪ The mixture is coagulated and titanium dioxide is added to adjust the weight.
▪ A magazine article indicated I might benefit from adding weight lifting to my exercise program.
▪ These findings add considerable weight to the claims that emotional arousal is of causal significance to relapse.
▪ You can change the center of gravity by adding weight to one part of the object.
▪ Does the tone and content of source C add weight to Snowden's argument? 11.
▪ However you install the stove, remember that you will be adding a lot of weight on the floor.
bear
▪ But to my mind neither section 8 nor the Gillick decision will bear the weight which he seeks to place upon them.
▪ I went down the steps, slowly, enjoying the way each step bore my weight.
▪ Yet these will hardly bear the weight of a theory so grand as the fusion of legacy and trust.
▪ Differences that had seemed slight when they were in their early twenties now bore social weight.
▪ The Hooper who existed in Brideshead Revisited, though, bore all the weight of Waugh's opprobrium.
▪ If the floor is properly framed, you should not need extra support underneath to bear the weight of the fireplace.
▪ As a foundation it is inadequate to bear the weight of the case that Mr. McGregor sought to build upon it.
▪ His arms were numb, his hands too weak to bear his weight.
carry
▪ Any inability to carry the weight on the hind-legs will trigger off resistance in the mouth.
▪ Those companies felt their name carried more weight in the East.
▪ Whether he was more than that, whether he carried weight with the monarch or the Council, was up to him.
▪ We carry the weight of the race and the weight of racism.
▪ Before 1966 these claims were not widely supported and carried little political weight.
▪ Indeed, in planning a food garden for next season, the cookbook may carry more weight.
▪ Cigar can no longer be accused of never carrying weight.
feel
▪ He took his hand away, but as she stumbled down the ladder she could still feel its warm weight.
▪ He could feel the weight in his forehead.
▪ A woman of such forthright views as yourself would, I feel, lend considerable weight to this project.
▪ Corrigan felt the weight of the old man fall against him.
▪ She felt the weight of something fastened on her head, circling her brow.
▪ And as that sense of independence grew, so the need I felt to control my weight subsided and finally disappeared altogether.
▪ Finally he felt her weight settle on the pillion seat.
▪ The studs should be immobile and feel like they have weight on them.
give
▪ But you must not plead in behalf of your will and refuse to give due weight to mine.
▪ In two subsequent cases, however, federal appeals courts have given greater weight to the rights of teachers.
▪ Proportional systems elect several candidates in multi-member constituencies, giving due weight to minority votes.
▪ He may even give greater weight to what his perspective is not designed to illuminate.
▪ Fit again Barnbrook can give the weight away.
▪ Several people took to squatting on the floor with shoes removed, having given in to the weight of their metallic dresses.
▪ The cultural approach to organisations needs to be welded to a political analysis if these determinants are to be given proper weight.
▪ I also do not give much weight to enthusiastic endorsements-empirical support is a sine qua non.
increase
▪ Hair loss, tremors, and increased weight are also occasional problems.
▪ The application of this technology strengthens the head of the racket without increasing its weight.
▪ The gene is also associated with increased body weight.
▪ Will he promise to resist all attempts to increase the maximum permitted weights of heavy lorries?
▪ The growth and increasing economic weight of groups generated more extensive and complex demands of government.
▪ Start with 5 reps at 75% of your maximum lift, then increase the weight but decrease the reps to 4.
▪ Cardiovascular death rates fell progressively with increasing birth weight.
keep
▪ Although the blown rubber keeps there weight down, wear patterns after 300 and 400 miles seem to bear out this view.
▪ Only 2 percent of patients had kept the weight off after two years.
▪ He does not smoke, eats frugally to keep down his weight and trains six days each week.
▪ They are both fit and active but I find it very difficult to keep their weight up.
▪ The secret to keeping the weight down and energy up is to serve meals that are calorie intensive.
▪ Some 23 percent believe that smoking keeps down weight.
▪ Indeed, for a while, Odette managed to keep her weight stable.
▪ You can keep portions small enough to keep to your target weight.
lend
▪ I lent weight to his side of the story but they sent him down.
▪ The bishops insisted that the Capitol Hill prayer vigil was non-partisan, but the impending election lent the event political weight.
▪ A woman of such forthright views as yourself would, I feel, lend considerable weight to this project.
▪ I owe it to Victoria to lend some retrospective weight to our parting.
▪ It's the first time a leading drinks company has lent its weight to such a campaign.
▪ The law lends its weight to uphold and enforce contracts freely entered into.
▪ Not withstanding the need for more investigation, the evidence surveyed in the previous chapter certainly lends weight to this view.
▪ Recognising this paradox lends weight to the patriarchy thesis, explaining away many apparent counter-examples.
lift
▪ If you were to lift that weight several times, you would find that the muscle gradually began to ache.
▪ Two or three days a week, the crew will run three to five miles, then lift weights.
▪ The first time you lifted the weight, perhaps 60 per cent of the fibres in that muscle were called into action.
▪ Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top.
▪ If you lift heavy weights and you lift in the wrong way, you can obviously do yourself damage.
▪ My buddies knew that I was lifting weights with Mr Barraza.
▪ Well, I was one of the people who couldn't do it even if I wasn't lifting a heavy weight.
▪ Do you want to build up your body and lift weights?
lose
▪ Your aim should not be to lose weight, but to bring your eating habits under your control.
▪ Since it was drawn, Kaczynski had aged, broken his nose and lost weight.
▪ How fast will I be able to lose weight?
▪ People who lose weight and keep it off eat a low-fat diet with an occasional splurge.
▪ She had lost weight in the last few weeks and the jeans were a little loose about her waist.
▪ Most lengthy studies show that people who lose weight over the years seem to die earlier than those whose weight remains stable.
▪ I was determined to lose the weight.
▪ Some people do lose weight when they normalize their eating, but not everyone.
pull
▪ All members were expected to pull their weight.
▪ The superiors counted on the new managers to pull their weight in contributing to the superiors' agendas.
▪ Some members of this class haven't been pulling their weight.
▪ You subs are not pulling your weight.
▪ He pulled a lot of weight at Fox, so they went along with his demand for changes.
▪ For the average business, pulses and linseed didn't pull their weight.
▪ He just didn't pull his weight domestically.
▪ He didn't pull his weight, but knew how to keep it from the consultants.
put
▪ All the fish have put on weight, the Pictus especially have grown about half-an-inch.
▪ My former heartthrob has put on weight.
▪ She says they're being fed chicken and trout, and have put on lots of weight.
▪ The latter approach appears to be putting more weight on our political system than the system is able to bear.
▪ I righted myself and pain shot up my right leg as I put weight on it.
▪ The rector loved the sight of his doctor and friend, who had put on weight and improved in color.
▪ She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight.
▪ The man increased his pressure, putting all his weight behind the knife arm.
reduce
▪ If you reduce your weight you change the amount of energy you need.
▪ In short, everything is reduced to number, weight, and measure.
▪ It reduces the weights of rules which may never have occurred in any conflict set.
▪ The first guideline is very important, not only for reducing your weight now but for controlling it in the future.
▪ This considerably reduces shrinkage and weight loss.
▪ Approach it one step at a time - just as you are reducing your weight and inches.
▪ This reduces the effective weight of that tank which, if not counteracted, will upset the basic balance of the system.
▪ Mazda had tyres specially made for the AZ-1 to reduce unsprung weight.
shift
▪ He shifted his weight so that his body brushed lightly against hers.
▪ One hip shifted her weight to that side, and suddenly every angle softly flowed into another.
▪ You can make the bike move up to 1.5 metres in a corner just by shifting your weight.
▪ He was frantically shifting his weight from side to side.
▪ The blonde student woke early in Devon, and shifted under the sleeping weight of his arm.
▪ The blank man be-hind her coughed and shifted weight, preparing to be embarrassed.
▪ However divorce is as effective as dieting for shifting stubborn weight!
▪ It crunched under her boots as she shifted her weight.
support
▪ The liquid helps to support the weight of the compass card, and also dampens oscillation.
▪ The floors themselves were strong enough to support the weight of the materials used to fill in the gaps.
▪ Both your stand and the floor it stands on must be capable of supporting this weight.
▪ A major concern, he said, is that many sky divers use canopies that are too small to support their weight.
▪ The design specifications had called for the columns to rest on bedrock that supported a weight of seven tons per square foot.
▪ Righting the stool with his foot, he pushed it under Jason's dangling toes to support some of the weight.
▪ The main structural consideration with any door or window is supporting the weight of the structure above.
throw
▪ How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way?
▪ Mortgage traders were the sort of fat people who grunt from the belly and throw their weight around, like sumo wrestlers.
▪ Very strong in his own way, not swaggering or throwing his weight about, but a great inner strength.
▪ He clambered forward, loosed the ropes, and threw his weight on the sail to bring it dawn.
▪ This threw his weight on to the outside of the feet which affected his whole balance, causing excessive stress throughout his entire body.
▪ When you held one of those slugs in your hand, it had a hefty throwing weight.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ It's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around.
watch
▪ He was already having to watch his weight.
▪ Avoid smoking. 4. Watch your weight. 5.
▪ But don't get obsessed with weight watching.
▪ He wore expensive suits, watched his weight, nursed friendships where friendships mattered.
▪ This is of tremendous help to anyone who is watching their weight and their health.
▪ Claire is watching her weight now.
▪ Blanche had been doomed to fight for her promotion, watch her weight, and fret over her childlessness.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
add weight to sth
▪ Does the tone and content of source C add weight to Snowden's argument? 11.
▪ Opposition leaders said the killing added weight to their demands for a change in government.
▪ Perhaps the enormous anti-Gorbachev demonstrations in Moscow do add weight to that particular reaction.
▪ The device of a court of five judges was adopted to add weight to the reconsideration of the earlier cases.
▪ The function of the double bassoon is to add weight to the bass.
▪ Three strengths of the study add weight to its conclusions.
▪ You can change the center of gravity by adding weight to one part of the object.
it/that is a load/weight off sb's mind
lend weight/support to sth
▪ I lent weight to his side of the story but they sent him down.
▪ In these circumstances it was the business of responsible churchmen to lend support to the monarch in every way they could.
▪ Not withstanding the need for more investigation, the evidence surveyed in the previous chapter certainly lends weight to this view.
▪ President Clinton lent support to the bill Monday.
▪ Recognising this paradox lends weight to the patriarchy thesis, explaining away many apparent counter-examples.
▪ Some psychoanalytic writing appears to lend support to these assumptions.
▪ The recent closures of the paper mill and the aluminium smelter at Invergordon lend weight to this argument.
▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.
net weight
▪ Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights.
punch above your weight
put on weight/12 lbs/4 kg etc
the sheer weight/size etc
▪ Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city.
▪ First, there was the sheer size of his positions.
▪ He forced though - even if going back: the sheer weight of his blows - Anton down on his hands and knees.
▪ He was slightly taken aback by the sheer size of the girl.
▪ I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue, he wrote.
▪ One of the difficulties is the sheer size of the family.
▪ The intensity of the introductions made me tremble, overtaken by the sheer weight of their status.
▪ Then there's the sheer size of the damn thing.
throw your weight around
▪ She likes to throw her weight around -- it makes her feel important.
▪ The commission has a reputation for throwing its weight around.
▪ Why is everyone so upset? Has George been throwing his weight around again?
▪ But being annual they would be open to reprisals if they threw their weight around too much.
▪ But that bloody Caitlin, he had to throw his weight around.
▪ Do we in petty ways throw our weight around?
▪ How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way?
▪ It's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around.
▪ Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around.
▪ Mortgage traders were the sort of fat people who grunt from the belly and throw their weight around, like sumo wrestlers.
▪ The apprentice was some distant relation of Pollitt's wife; that'd be why he was throwing his weight around.
throw your weight behind sb/sth
▪ Bahlman is throwing his weight behind the cultural center proposal.
▪ But Gloucester learnt their lesson and threw their weight behind the task.
▪ Chris is following in the footsteps of other Merseyside sports personalities by throwing his weight behind drugs prevention.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version.
▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
▪ Why he chose to throw his weight behind a man who stood such a slender chance remains unclear.
worth your/its weight in gold
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've been trying to lose weight for over a year now.
▪ I think he looks better now that he's put on some weight.
▪ If you can guess the weight of the cake, you win a prize.
▪ It's true, people who stop smoking do tend to gain weight.
▪ Jim was staggering along under the weight of a huge box of encyclopaedias.
▪ metric weight
▪ My height is six feet, and my weight is 173 pounds.
▪ My job requires lifting heavy weights such as TVs and refrigerators.
▪ Premature babies have a low birth weight.
▪ Several branches had been torn from the trees by the weight of the snow.
▪ She's always worried about her weight.
▪ Sudden or unexplained weight loss may be an early indication of health problems.
▪ The weight of evidence against her led to her conviction.
▪ The weight of the water makes the tub sink slightly.
▪ The average sperm whale is 72 feet long and about 90 tons in weight.
▪ The cost of postage depends on the weight of the package
▪ Top quality hams range in weight from eight to eighteen pounds.
▪ Twins and triplets are expected to have lower birth weights than single infants.
▪ Vehicles over a certain weight are not allowed to use the bridge.
▪ Victory was easy for a man of his weight and strength.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result of the government's programme, the weight of the public enterprise sector was significantly curtailed.
▪ For women, there was little relationship between weight and early death at all.
▪ He stands with his weight on the right foot, his face lightly turned in that direction.
▪ It goes without saying that Quinn lost a good deal of weight during this period.
▪ It was no less than he deserved for carrying the weight of his team on his shoulders all game long.
▪ Whipped butter and flavoured butters are more expensive than butter weight for weight.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
▪ White's body was found stabbed and weighted down in a lake near Cirencester in 1989.
▪ She tried to roll over but her body seemed weighted down, turned to stone.
▪ Suddenly, it dredges up ghosts weighted down and buried in haste after a fierce battle.
▪ The second one was doing a lot of drugs to keep her weight down.
▪ Maybe it never will, if it was weighted down, but we should have enough even without that.
▪ I threw the head weighted down with stones into a canal.
▪ A sodden heaviness weighted down her limbs.
▪ The place is electric with drama, with something weighty, weighted down more by the pressure of the storm.
■ NOUN
company
▪ The index is a price-weighted list of 36 companies designed to measure the economy of west-central Florida.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it/that is a load/weight off sb's mind
net weight
▪ Documents must not be handed to drivers or otherwise issued with blank spaces for recording particulars of tare weights or net weights.
the sheer weight/size etc
▪ Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city.
▪ First, there was the sheer size of his positions.
▪ He forced though - even if going back: the sheer weight of his blows - Anton down on his hands and knees.
▪ He was slightly taken aback by the sheer size of the girl.
▪ I grow bored with the sheer size of the glass and have to force myself to continue, he wrote.
▪ One of the difficulties is the sheer size of the family.
▪ The intensity of the introductions made me tremble, overtaken by the sheer weight of their status.
▪ Then there's the sheer size of the damn thing.
worth your/its weight in gold
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ fishing lines weighted with lead
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Basically, by weighting the left rail the board turns to the right and viceversa.
▪ Telmex, the top weighted stock, gained a further 65 centavos at 24.55 pesos.